mortDK: Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

In Epi: Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

Description

The mortDK data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

age:	Age class, 0--89, 90:90+.
per:	Calendar period, 38: 1938--42, 43: 1943--47, ..., 88:1988-92.
sex:	Sex, 1: male, 2: female.
risk:	Number of person-years in the Danish population.
dt:	Number of deaths.
rt:	Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e. rt=1000*dt/risk
	Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years:
r1:	Infections
r2:	Cancer.
r3:	Tumors, benign, unspecific nature.
r4:	Endocrine, metabolic.
r5:	Blood.
r6:	Nervous system, psychiatric.
r7:	Cerebrovascular.
r8:	Cardiac.
r9:	Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer.
r10:	Liver, excl. cancer.
r11:	Digestive, other.
r12:	Genitourinary.
r13:	Ill-defined symptoms.
r14:	All other, natural.
r15:	Violent.

Source

Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

See Also

thoro, gmortDK

Examples

data(mortDK)

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